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_player1537
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What should I try to tackle first?
21 Mar 2010 06:31:06 pm
Last edited by _player1537 on 21 Mar 2010 06:36:23 pm; edited 1 time in total

The other day I went camping and my friends helped me come up with new ideas for games/routines, tell me which one you think I should try first or ask about certain games. Most of these things are to challenge myself, if anyone wants me not to do something just come right out and say it, or if anyone else wants to make them themselves then do so. Anyways, here goes:

Axe
line routine
3d
extract bits in any proportion
tile mapper
physics engine
hooks
space game (like pheonix)
music
greyscale
make a game >9000 bytes, 1337 bytes
CGOL

Any Language
mario
escape game
mastermind in greyscale
papijump
pacman
tetris
bubble breaker
mario-tetris
asteroids
tower defence
frogger
fast tunnel
mouse routine/doors gui
racing game
flying game
impossible quiz
don't press the red button
modern warfare type game

SirCmpwn
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Coding Knight (Posts: 1477)

21 Mar 2010 06:34:10 pm

In this order:
3D, greyscale, hooks, pacman, everything else in whatever order you like
Tilemapping has already been done, dude.

_player1537
Guru-in-Training (Posts: 2983)

21 Mar 2010 06:35:52 pm

indeed, but I haven't made one, papijump has been done too, along with CGOL, pheonixy game, physics engine, pretty much most of these. I want to test my skills making these, sorry if it sounded rude

SirCmpwn
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Coding Knight (Posts: 1477)

21 Mar 2010 06:38:26 pm

You didn't sound rude at all Razz

But you should do papijump and a physics engine. I'm thinking of releasing the Half Life 2 engine under the name Steam when I'm done with it, too Rolling Eyes

, which consists of physics, graphis, and level design.

KermMartian
Site Admin (Posts: 64080)

21 Mar 2010 11:00:38 pm

I seem to be missing out on a lot of fun with this AXE language. Razz

Does it produce decently-sized and decently-functional code?

_player1537
Guru-in-Training (Posts: 2983)

21 Mar 2010 11:03:57 pm

@Size it kinda depends, if you have a small program that divides, multiplies and does wierd stuff, then it will give slightly wasteful code. But if you make a large program that uses dividing a lot, properly puts code in subroutines, etc then you can have very efficient code.

I will try to find specific examples

ACagliano
Guru-in-Training (Posts: 2001)

21 Mar 2010 11:05:04 pm

As of right now, it only has about 40% of the commands accounted for, or something like that. So, not about yet. It is being completed fast, though. I'm monitoring its progress.

_player1537
Guru-in-Training (Posts: 2983)

21 Mar 2010 11:05:50 pm

here is a link to the progress thread: http://ourl.ca/4060

Edit: Here's a table for the program sizes

Code:




Program | Source size | Compiled Size


CGOL | 696 | 260


StarDemo | 297 | 724


Sound | 212 | 408


Screen Saver | 116 | 291


Guess | 303 | 531


Star Ship | 1667 | 2522

DJ Omnimaga
Guru-in-Training (Posts: 2836)

22 Mar 2010 12:01:01 am

Actually, in the case where your program mostly consists of data, for example sprites, the compiled version may end up smaller. In Axe form, a sprite will be 16 bytes large, stored in hex, but compiled, it will become 8 bytes. So for a game that has a lot of maps but a very small and simple engine, your game may end up about 40-45% smaller

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